The NAS Facility has an impressive track record for solving computing problems for NASA and our other partners. We provide substantial resources to researchers across the country. In fiscal year 1997 alone, we allocated nearly a half-million hours of supercomputer time for scientific research. Among other major accomplishments, the NAS staff: led the effort to create an industry standard for batch environments; NAS's Portable Batch System (PBS) is the first -- and only -- system that fully meets the standard's requirements; developed the Flow Analysis Software Toolkit (FAST), a software environment for analyzing data from numerical simulations. FAST earned NASA's Software of the Year award; integrated leading-edge network technologies into AEROnet, including Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), which resulted in a three-fold increase in the available network capacity for off-site supercomputer users. We've built a reputation for giving our customers excellent scientific computing services and support, as well as the tools and techniques needed to obtain, analyze, and visualize computational results. In turn, these results are used to make significant changes to airplane and spacecraft designs. For example, a scientific visualization technique developed in NAS's data analysis group, was recently used to help the U.S. Army solve a problem locating the source of helicopter and tiltrotor noise.

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